Nasdaq Listing - potential trading problems21 Dec 2025 12:50
As an extremely large shareholder in Mkango (1.5 million shares approx), and looking at the potential Nasdaq listings in both the Malawi mine/ Pulawy refinery and Hypromag, I just wanted to highlight my experiences with another AIM company I had invested in, which then listed on Nasdaq. Initially I had all my holdings in Hargreaves and Lansdown, but each “sell” order I tried was rejected as H&L said they couldn’t find a matching buyer. At the end it took me more than 3 weeks to sell my total holdings, having initially had to break down into smaller quantities and then using a “ Fill or Kill “ order.
And to cap it all I had to pay a currency surcharge fee,, a dealing fee and the usual £11.95 trading fee.
Part way through this nonsense I moved some of my holdings across to Freetrade, but again I have encountered same problems with them not being able to sell other than in small tranches and over several weeks. I did have some rather garbled explanation from Freetrade but that did nothing to clarify my concerns.
I now have a third broker Trading 212 but when I tried some months ago to buy my full £20,000 ISA in Mkango shares they had an in house limit on Mkango which restricted me to just £4800 total investment.
So now with my total Mkango investment across 3 brokers, and the experiences I’ve had with Nasdaq trading from Uk based brokers, I’m really anxious about how I’d be able to sell in the quantities I’d need to should the Nasdaq listings proceed.
Any others found similar problems.